Where are the weepy, lifelong Niners fans soothing their heartbreak with vows to boycott the club once it moves to Santa Clara?

We’re not seeing any of the usual hand-wringing over the Niners’ impending move for two main reasons:

1) We saw this coming. The team telegraphed it years ago and we’ve all had time for the news to settle in.

2) It’s not that big a deal.

In the grand scheme of things, most people realize (and the team realizes) that when the team moves 41 miles south, fans will still buy tickets, will still watch the team on TV, will still snap up merchandise, will still shout “Niners!” when the players scamper off the field following a victory.

Sure, San Francisco loses a bit of cachet when its football team leaves. But the city, I’m sure, will soldier on. The Niners likely will still use the San Francisco name. And we all know that many football teams don’t play in the towns stenciled across their official $49.95 T-shirts. The Cowboys play in Arlington, Texas. The Jets and Giants play in East Rutherford, N.J. You get the picture.

Some things will change, of course. Perhaps for the better. It may well be easier for fans to drive away from Niners games in Santa Clara. We’re all familiar with the bumper-to-bumper parking lot nightmare following Niners games at Candlestick.

In the end, fans know that a Niners relocation to Santa Clara is not on par with the soul-smashing move that the Raiders undertook when the club alighted to Los Angeles. Oakland fans had to live without the Silver and Black for 13 years before the club returned in 1995.

Yes, the Niners are leaving San Francisco, a move crafted by the cold, uncaring hand of commerce.

But San Franciscans will still love their Niners, watch their Niners, buy tickets to their Niners. Because 41 miles isn’t that big a deal.